2014
Prince was painted live in 2014 during The Collage Movement NYC at Dinner on Ludlow in New York City. Created in acrylic on navy illustration board, the 22 × 28 inch portrait developed in front of a live audience.
The Collage Movement NYC combined art, networking, socializing and entertainment, and became an important part of my development as a live painter. It was where I began creating paintings in front of an audience, bringing the process out of the studio and into a shared public space.
2014 → 2024
From a live painting in 2014 to later videos documenting the surface and details of the finished work, these pieces from the archive follow Prince across the years.
2014
Prince was created in front of a live audience during The Collage Movement NYC at Dinner on Ludlow in New York City.
Painting in a room filled with people changed the experience of making the work. The process became part of the event itself rather than something that happened privately in the studio.
2014
The work began on a 44 × 28 inch sheet of navy illustration board. I scored the center of the board so it could fold like a page while remaining one continuous piece.
The scored construction allowed the board to fold without disturbing the painted surface and created two 22 × 28 inch sections. The finished Prince portrait occupies one of those sections.
February 20, 2022
Years after the live painting event, I returned to Prince on video, documenting the physical painting and bringing the work back into view.
November 30, 2024
A closer view of the original painting reveals details that are easy to miss in a single photograph: the acrylic surface, layered color and individual brushwork.
The video was shared across my Instagram, Facebook art page and TikTok, continuing the life of a painting first created in front of an audience a decade earlier.